Hidden Holocaust

Hidden Holocaust

Chris Walker/Chicago Tribune

At the Illinois Holocaust Museum, one display features a "hidden" piece of art. One image is a peaceful scene (right) painted by a forced laborer, Ferdinand Bloch, for the Germans during World War II in1943, in Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia, a Jewsh ghetto and concentration camp; the reverse (left) shows a darker, more truthful image of ghetto life under German domination.

At the Illinois Holocaust Museum, one display features a "hidden" piece of art. One image is a peaceful scene (right) painted by a forced laborer, Ferdinand Bloch, for the Germans during World War II in1943, in Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia, a Jewsh ghetto and concentration camp; the reverse (left) shows a darker, more truthful image of ghetto life under German domination. (Chris Walker/Chicago Tribune)

At the Illinois Holocaust Museum, one display features a "hidden" piece of art. One image is a peaceful scene (right) painted by a forced laborer, Ferdinand Bloch, for the Germans during World War II in1943, in Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia, a Jewsh ghetto and concentration camp; the reverse (left) shows a darker, more truthful image of ghetto life under German domination.